Dulceous
Full definition of dulceous
Adjective
dulceous
- (rare) Sweet.
- 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or, a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon Containing the Several Variety of Created Beings, and How Born in Coats of Arms, Both Foreign and Domestick:, A Gustation is the Sence of tasting, which proceeds from the Instrument of the Tongue, and Pallate; now there are several sorts of tasts: as,
The Sapious, or Sapitious, or Savoury taste; is when the Sense is pleased and delighted therewith: as in eating ripe fruit.
The Dulceous, Luscious, or sweet tast; as in Hony. - 1793, William Rowley, The Rational Practice of Physic, Fruits are divided, in respect of their taſte, into the acid-dulceous, the aqueo-dulceous, the aſtringent, and the oily.
- 16 June 1800, Henry James Pye, Ode for His Majesty’s Birth-Day, June 4, 1800, Fenc’d by her naval hoſts, that ride
Triumphant o’er the circling tide,
Britannia jocund pours the feſtive lay,
And hails with dulceous voice her George’s natal day. - 1961, Tagore’s voice was deep, resonant, vibrant over a long range, and dulceous like the tingling of silver bells.
- 2015, Ajarn Wu Hsih, Fascinating Panoptic Septon: The September-Born Poem, drink THAT dulceous devotion
from THE DEVotion incarnate
oozing from the name-form
healing the dullness of tasting love